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was what Germany’s federal budget deficit came to in 2017. While expenditure totalled 325.4 billion euros, ­revenue amounted to 330.4 billion euros. For the fourth year in succession, in 2017 central government assumed no new debt. This was thanks above all to higher tax revenues generated by the robust economy.

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“Stolpersteine”

In many German and European cities, “Stolpersteine” (stumbling stones) placed in the ground remind passers-by that Jewish citizens who were ­persecuted, murdered, deported, or driven away by the Nazis, once lived or worked in the buildings outside which the stones are placed. The approximately 10 by 10-centimetre ­cube-shaped concrete blocks have a brass top with an inscription in ­memory of the victim bearing his or her name and biographical data.